[MonoDevelop] Re: generating pot file not working in trunk

["Andrés G. Aragoneses"]

Andrés G. Aragoneses escribió:
> David Makovský (Yakeen) escribió:
>> we have inconsistent and broken POTFILES.in file in trunk...
>> That's not good situation for translators to keep updated translations,
>> shouldn't we include an rule for patches that this is rule to keep it
>> uptodate? Some notice on Wiki will help to remind people when doing
>> refactoring or adding new files with translation strings...
>> Have someone any ideas for automatic checks on commits?
>> Can we have some automatic method for notify translators that some files
>> have changed their strings?
> 
> I think the most proper way is the one it's done with Mozilla products
> cycle: some days (about 15) before a release is going to happen, there
> is a "l10n" freeze, no one can change more literals before the release
> date. The localizers then have this time to update their localizations.
> 
> BTW, I am preparing a patch that fixes this POTFILES issue and also
> includes some unlocalized strings into the Gettext ecosystem of MD.
> Hopefully I will have it ready to post this evening.

The second patch attached to bug 77516
(http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77516) fixes this also.

Ok to commit?

Regards,

	Andrés	[ knocte ]

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